Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-01

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The friends Of personal liberty seem
% undervalue the danger threatening
Them. The enormous strides which
prohibition has made, especially in
states, ought to awaken
them. Washington (whiskey)Sentinel
"Confession is good for the soul"
Since the passage of the suffrage law
in Kansas the w. G. r.. u. ladies have
organized for campaign work and ap-
pointed committees in each ward to
see that oil women are registered. The
ladies Of Lincoln Post, thirty wives,
mothers, sisters and daughters Of In
ION soldiers Of the rebellion, went in a
body and registered. They were head
ed by Mother Ashbaugh, Il years of
age.
The battle cry of Michigan Prohibi-
tionists is, Remember Haddock and
lIewell!.' The conflict is raging and no
doubt will be fearful. Even the South
has furnished her quot. of "Itome
Guards to fight alongside of Northern
veterans, for protection for Northern
homes from King Alcohol. The sa-
loonitics are donating freely of their
ill-gotteh gains to defeat the prohibit
ton vote.
Washington Territory is all in a mud
die because Of the decision that the act
comforting suffrage upon women in
that territory is Unconstitutional, be-
cause the legislature, in passing it, re-
ferred to the section Of which it is an
amendment, by number instead Of writ
ing OFT it's title in full.
The real foundation Of the whole
thing is that some female jurors found
Indictment against a notorious gam
bier who had used loaded dice, and sen
fenced him to a year and a half in the
penitentiMy.
Ills attorney took it to the supreme
court, and behold the result! The bal
lot is taken from women that scoun-
drels may go free.
And now turns UP another result.
On this same technicality the supreme
court is unconstitutional, and occasions
endless litigation. Titles to much prop
erty will be- unsettled. besides many
other legal questions.
In that territory half breed Indians
and Kanakas vote. The only persons
excluded from that right are the Chi.
nameu, full-blooded Indians and intel
ligent white women.
The boss politicians have discovered
that women have hearts and conscienc
es that tell in their votes against The
liquor dealers. There's the rub.
Prof. Winchells wife, Of Minneapo
lis, has led our forces on to victory b,
securing the passage,of the Scientific
Temperance instruction bill in tn
Minnesota legislature. We will remem
Der the first political calltus ever he'll
in Minnesota, especially by, women
The first thing they DID was to searel
every mock and corner and ppssibl
hiding place for. q reporter. ~dS~thafnal
persuasion, and cffectuatly hanlah hin
The caucus was opened Ivy aingins
"Nearcr. My God, to Thee" reaslin.
scripture, and prayer. -Aftpr inuc,,s' d'
liberation we n~onrirated Mrs Winvf:e]
and MIS-. Van Clear for meml'el.S "
school Board. Some Of the ladies Gale
on the candidates fer speech, Mr.;
| Van Cleur, with the weight OF year
! showing in her snow-whit= sair, re
sponded to our satisfaction; but "hei
Mrs. M'inchell, y graduate, anu tn
| wife Il a state g%eologist. attempted l.
I express herself. She Eroke do'sxn, an
! womanlike, G:ied. and CT course We Il!
i Joined in. ... ~.
4 That convinced us that ali women q
/ not put on manly airs. Her mode5t,'
5 and sweet womanly way in telling 0
I her own little children. Still around ne
i knee, aispelled every doubt that m?a
1 ever have existed, in or mindin regsaI
to the expeliencs OF oma suffrage
I We elected our candidates, and ina
4 too, in the face of every opposition
The issue was really ~hishey Us. ten
rerance, for the legislature had prom
lsed the women Of Dakota full st1fag
II they did. their duty on the scho,
4 question, and the saloon men well NHe.'
THAT that meant AN end to our business
q Our women served so well in the cay
n acirv of school directors. in that 'arg
city, that they, We're urged to a,cc'pftl IN
. Office again. by thu WOrkingtl:1nS ~